Opinion: Three Ways To Improve The Aviation Maintenance Pipeline

Embry-Riddle team

Two Embry-Riddle teams, including Tea Galon (far left) and Hannah Daren (front, third from left), competed in the 2023 Aerospace Maintenance Competition.

Credit: Bernard Wilchusky/Embry‑Riddle
Our industry desperately needs more young people like Tea Galon. A recent email from Galon, an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University graduate who is now an aviation technician for United Airlines, bursts with enthusiasm for her work keeping aircraft sound and flying. “I love it,” Galon writes. “I...
P. Barry Butler

P. Barry Butler is president of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

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